Four
Stanzas
I
He’s a
man, not so much of a man
But I
look at him and I see oceans and dreams
Great plans and scenes
All reflected into those clear blue eyes of his.
He’s
in a way like me
First to be, last to become
The flesh and the blood of a spinning world
That never ceases to twirl.
Still
himself after all these years – a gift
That only comes with time
To get back his soul where so many lost their minds.
He’s a
man, not so much of a man
But when I look at him I see myself
And all that I still can be, become and believe
All reflected into those clear blue eyes of his.
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II
Why do
you scare me so –
Even after all these years?
Why do you haunt my mind
With those strange melodies?
When you
talk of your pain
It’s like you speak about
The way I used to be –
And that startles me to death.
In a way
it’s strange,
digging your wounds as if you liked to be hurt
In a way are we not like you
Wanting so much someone to ease our burdens?
In the
end, only you remain
Alive but by a thread of memory
Higher than the rest –
Not perfect, not blessed or corrected,
Just yourself, that’s more than enough for me.
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III
I bow
before you and there’s so much to say
If I ever had the chance to tell you
All the words that cross my mind
In my
dreams, there’s where you still reside
And even though it’s only for a moment
I hold on to every breath, every night.
For a
moment, I wonder –
Why do you move me so?
What’s on you that keeps me alive?
A dark
horse, a deep soul
Where no answers are left to be known
Shy and distant, your music still lulls me on.
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IV
Is it a
joke, your existence?
So many songs and just one man!
A heart on the sleeve and eyes on the road
A strange knight, Mother Nature’s son
There
could be only one like you
Yet so sound like you are one too many
Music, movies, children and all that jazz –
Pretty blunt, you seem to be everywhere!
And
yet...
Yet every time I hear you I bend down
The memories coming to my ears
The visions cross my eyes –
All the dreams I had come before me
Like they had never left me at all.
And then
I forgive you. Again.
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Envoi
All that
there is and all that will be –
I bow before the melody in your eyes
Forever be blessed, whatever God is,
For the joy you brought into our lives.
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